Airlines and regulators spent the past year debating how much flight tracking is necessary, balancing the economic costs against reassuring travellers another plane won't disappear. Now a plan is moving forward that would require airlines, by the end of 2016, to know their jets' positions every 15 minutes.

A slick new documentary on China's environmental woes has racked up more than 28 million online views in two days, underscoring growing concern in the country over the impact of air, water and soil pollution.

Growing up in a small town in Argentina, Augusto Cicare was so fascinated by flight that he took apart his mother's bedframe and built a fuselage for a helicopter. Cicare has since founded a boutique ultra-light helicopter business that draws clients from all over the world.

Lost that charger again for your cellphone or tablet? Hate sorting heaps of wires to charge various devices? Swedish retailer IKEA might just have the answer -- furniture with built-in charging spots, including in bedside tables, lamps and desks.